The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which... Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Them old masters, when they got mad, had no mercy on a nigger--they'd cut a nigger all up in a hurry--cut 'em all up into strings,... just leave the life, that's all. I've seen 'em do it, many a time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, ...I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Here lies a man who was killed by lightning;He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening....He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble,But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the ve...ssel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of the ...storm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,... I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly un...der crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,...A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »